STUDY ANALYSIS: Flame Retardants as Endocrine Disruptors

A new study reveals that replacement chemicals are linked to premature births and reduced birth weight

It’s a story that’s all too familiar: a class of chemicals is identified as being harmful after many years of use, so new chemicals are brought in to replace them — only for the new chemicals to turn out to be just as bad as the old, or maybe even worse. That happened with bisphenol-A and its replacements, and it’s happened with pthalates and their repl…